Thread guide and cleaner for spinning looms and the like machines



Dec. 18, 1928. 1,695,743

..I. A, ROUGE THREAD GUIDE AND CLEANER FOR SPINNING LOOMS AND THE LIKE MACHINES Filed July 28, 1927 Inventor: Joseph. Auguste. R0058.

v Attorney:

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE".

V JOSEPH AUGUSTE BOUGE, OF BEMIBEMOINT, FRANCE. I THREAD (Sr'U ID ILIaLlhTIl("LIEAINER/ IEOR'SPINNING LO OMS ANl) THE LIKE ,MACHINES. Application fiIed July 28, 1927, Serial no. 209,125, and. in France August 4, 192 6. I The present invention has for its object a order to prevent any possibility of enlarging thread guide and cleaner intended to elimifraudulently the opening between the curves nate from the textile staples or threads the I (space 8) and allow the passage of lrreguk irregularities (knots and the like) in the lariti-es orprojcctions carried by the thread. 50

spinning looms or the like machines in which The above described thread guide is located the moving thread is subm tted to a gulding at the same places and 111 the same way as the action. guides used until now (reels).

Until now the, guifdmg of the thread is ob- The space (8) may 'vary according to'the tained by passing the latter between two roll dimensions of the thread to'be obtained, from 55 10 ers or through a simple reel; this guiding 1s one tenth of a mllllmeter up to several m1ll1- insutficient for cleaning and picking 't ne .meters. thread. In order to allow a satisfactory Havingnow fully described my'said invencleaning, it is needful that the thread runs tiomwhatlclaim and desire to secure by Let through a well limited space, so that a welt ters Patent, is: I I on determinat'ed section of same may pass, l. A. guide and cleaner for threads comwhereas any exceeding or projecting portion prising a member consisting of a length of of the section or any impurity is stopped and wire shaped to form concentric and parallel retained. Y convolutions in spaced relation to one'an- According to the present inventionl attain other, the spaces between the said convolu- 20 this object in making use of a thread guide tions corresponding to the size of a thread to made 01" a wire of round. section, rolled up be guided and cleaned. according to curves partially disposed in par' 2. A. guide and cleaner for threads C0111.- allel relation to each other and forming beprising a member consisting of a length of tween them free interstices having exactly wire shaped to form concentric and parallel 25 the size of the sections of the textile threads convolutions in spaced relation to one anintended to run through said guides. other, the spaces between the said convolu-- As shown by way of example in the accomtions corresponding to the size of a thread panying drawing, the thread guideis formed to be guided and cleaned, anda guide at the of a wire of round section provided with a ends of the member. j substantially straight tail (1) slightly. bent 3. A thread, guide and cleaner, a member (2), then curved according to a first comcomprising a wire of circular cross section plete curve (3),the wire, at the end of the having curved portions concentric and subcurve being slightly bent'upwards at (4), stantially parallel with respect to and in forming a second curve substantially in the spaced relation toone another, the space he '35 plane ofthe first curve- (3) this second curve tween the concentric portions corresponding ending into a bend (6) ending by a tail (7 to the size of thread to be guided and cleaned, Two, three or more of such curves may be the said member terminating at one end in a used. curved formation in such relation to one of Between the succeeding curves is provided the concentric portions that the space bea space (-8), exactly corresponding to the tween the said two parts of'the guide cannot. section of the textile thread (9) to be cleaned. be increased without moving the concentric The bent portion or knee (2) wherethe thread portions of the guide closer together. enters the device, is shaped so that the texe In testimony whereof I have hereunto set tile thread may exactly pass between the my hand.

45 curves, without any play with respect to the I curvature inthe direction'of the tail (7), in JOSEPH AUGUSTE ROUGE. 

